Wednesday, February 16, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 7
Group seeks money for speaker
By Erin R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Templin Revolution has had issues with free speech on campus in its three-year history, and the group's latest cause involves a controversial Supreme Court case.
The group will be asking Student Senate to finance a speaker familiar with the Southworth v. Grebe case in which three students filed suit against the University of Wisconsin. They objected to paying student fees that went to organizations that were against their beliefs.
"It's an important issue at every university," said Brian Bartelt,
one of Templin Revolution's 30 or so members and a West Des Moines, Iowa, junior. "Our main goal is more of a matter of student empowerment, but one of the issues we seem to be running into a lot is free speech."
The $1,080 requested would bring Robbin Hubbard, director for the Center for Campus Free Speech, to the University of Kansas in early April. Hubbard said the center, which is based in Washington, D.C., was a collective effort of university communities to ensure that student groups and activities were financed.
The case has special significance to Hubbard — she is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and ran in student government elections against one of the plaintiffs, Scott Southworth
Hubbard, who speaks at many universities, said she would give the audience some background on the case and address the future of financing student groups if she came to Lawrence.
But, if a ruling was made the speech's content could be altered, she said.
"At this point, our stance is that mandatory student fees should be acceptable." she said.
"She's real young, in her mid-20s," said Partha Mazumdar, Pittsburgh graduate student, who has heard Hubbard speak several times. "She's very knowledgeable as an academician about these issues, but she can talk about
them in a nonacademic way without dumbing it down."
Mazumdar said the case could have implications at the University, but that the situation at Wisconsin was different.
KU Student Senate rules and regulations state that student fees cannot go to groups that participate in partisan activities.
"The Wisconsin student government was funding some outrageous groups," he said, referring to a women's group that also campaigned for a politician, which violated the institution's policy of not funding political groups.
"We are on pretty solid ground that basically everybody who gets funding will continue to get funded," Mazumdar said.
Intellectual property policy awaits SenEx OK
By Ryan Devlin writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A new draft of the University's intellectual property policy remains in limbo until changes suggested by the provost can be considered further by the Senate Executive Committee.
The intellectual property policy establishes principles governing intellectual property rights between universities, faculty, staff and students. It is used to determine how revenues will be split among the involved parties when profit is gained from research or writing.
Provost David Shulenburger asked the committee that produced the new draft to consider minor changes to their proposal.
"We cannot change the Board's document at all." Shulenburger said. "It provides the overall guidance for our policy. Thus, the document only spells out the campus understanding of that policy."
Because the University's policy must comply with the Board of Regents' intellectual property policy, most of his changes were editorial, he said.
Ed Meyen, committee representative and professor of special education, said that he thought the provost's suggestions had been addressed and that the committee was essentially finished with the policy.
"The document basically belongs to SenEx now," Meyen said.
Jim Carothers, University Senate Executive Committee chairman and professor of English, said that the committee would wait until it met next week before the group made a decision.
Shulenburger said the most consequential change concerned ownership of copyrightable software. The original draft stated that the must University render a decision determining ownership within 45 days.
"Some matters are extraordinarily complex and take more than 45 days to resolve," he said. "For that reason, I suggested that a little flexibility be added."
Shulenburger said he was
pleased with the committee's changes.
Robert Vodicka, committee member and San Diego graduate student, said that the intellectual property policy might seem irrelevant to students but that it was something important for them to understand.
"For graduate students as well as undergraduates, especially those in the sciences, the chance that they might create or develop something of value while at KU is not impossible," he said. "If they do create something of value, there needs to be a policy that lays out the ground rules, that says, 'If there is money involved, here's how it will be divided up.'"
SenEx will meet Tuesday to discuss the revised draft.
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